Word: complainers
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Brisk English. Some Scriptural experts complain that Phillips' concern for sense rather than literal accuracy produces paraphrase rather than translation. Nonetheless, his method produces particularly happy results in Hosea, a puzzling book with a notoriously corrupt Hebrew text. Freely transposing sentences and phrases, Phillips produces line after line of brisk English that enlightens where the King James Version confuses-and probably makes more sense than the original. Sample comparative verses from Hosea...
Ever since France ceded Canada to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French-speaking province of Quebec has felt itself unhappily isolated. Québecois complain that they are treated as second-class citizens by the English-speaking Canadians. As for Frenchmen, when they noticed Quebec at all, they tended to regard it as a chilly place populated by peasants who spoke an unforgivable French...
...hardly blame them. With its win over Holy Cross last weekend the Green ran its current winning streak to 15 in a row, the longest major college string in the nation. Now, football fans have to have something to complain about; for Indian followers it's getting more difficult every week...
...spinsters, the civic leader enlists the support of some collegiate picketers who are suffering from the "Age-of-Anxiety Blues." Distressed that "Jim Baldwin said kid you gotta take a stand, but Ole Miss has opened and the bomb has been banned," the Wellesley-Brandeis-Radcliffe collection of demonstrators complain that "Sartre said kid you gotta decide/but how can I determine the essence inside...
...program may also lead, purely incidentally, to an even greater revolution in undergraduate instruction. Instructors and Assistant Professors now complain that the energy and talent they devote to teaching undergraduates do nothing to advance them professionally. Under the new system, teaching ability will influence professional advancement at two important stages. The History Department will choose the 25 fellowship holders on the basis not only of scholarship, but also of recommendations which will include an estimate of teaching ability. And the Department's recommendations of Ph.D.'s for academic positions will consider candidates' performances during their teaching years. Perhaps...